Theo Smeets
Theo Smeets (born March 11, 1964 in Valkenburg , Netherlands ) is a Dutch jewelry designer.
education and profession
Since Smeets worked in 1998 as a professor of jewelery design at the Fachhochschule Trier at the Department of design in the field of gem and jewelery design in Idar-Oberstein . He was vice dean of the design department and head of the department from 2005 to 2011.
He learned gold and silversmiths at the Vakschool Schoonhoven (1982–1986) in Schoonhoven and studied jewelry design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (1986–1992) in Amsterdam with Joke Brakman , Onno Boekhoudt and Ruudt Peters .
Selection of exhibitions
- 1990: Hiko Mizuno College, Tokyo
- 1993: De oogst , Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam; Tekens & ketens , Museum v / d Togt, Amstelveen, Netherlands
- 1995: Contemporary Dutch Jewelery , Sofa, Chicago, USA
- 1996: European Jewelry , Sofa, Miami, USA
- 1998: Solo , Museum het kruithuis, Den Bosch, Netherlands
- 2001: Op de huid , Arnhem Museum, Arnhem , The Netherlands
- 2002: Diadeem voor Máxima , Museum het kruithuis, Den Bosch , Netherlands
- 2004: Valuable left. Jewels from the OSCE countries , Museum für Völkerkunde , Vienna; 'A Tiara for Maxima', Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne
- 2005: Traveling Symposium , Museo Travassos, Douro , Portugal
- 2006: Turnov Symposium '06 - The Collection , Museum Turnov , Czech Republic
- 2007: "SkinCase", Pedros Y Pegassos, Porto, Portugal
- 2009: "3 of a kind - V" Galerie AdK, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2011: "Triennale du bijou contemporain", Mons, Belgium
Web links
- Official website
- www.fh-trier.de/fb/io University of Applied Sciences Trier, course in gemstone and jewelry design
- University of Applied Sciences Trier, course gemstone and jewelry design, Prof. Theo Smeets
- Jewelry artist and art teacher in one person: Theo Smeets
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- ^ SOFA-Expo website: The annual international exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art (English).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Smeets, Theo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch jewelry designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1964 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Valkenburg , Netherlands |